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In:Studies in Turkish as a Heritage Language
Edited by Fatih Bayram
[Studies in Bilingualism 60] 2020
► pp. 265–284

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Chapter 11
Contemporary urban Turkey-Turkish in the German-Turkish classroom

 | Boğaziçi University
Published online: 18 November 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.60.11erd
Abstract
Drawing on a larger linguistic ethnographic project (Erduyan, 2019), this chapter focuses on the incorporation of urban, Turkey-Turkish speech style into the Turkish heritage language classroom discourse in the context of Germany. Adopting a microethnographic framework through scalar lenses, the analyses center on naturally occurring word search sessions in two different Turkish classes. The foci of analyses are on two adjectives that have gone through semantic widening in Turkey-Turkish in recent years (komik, arızalı) and are incorporated into teacher-led classroom discussions. Findings demonstrate that the newly attributed meanings of these adjectives in context are not equally transparent to the teachers and students alike; and the Turkish-German transnational scale that gets constructed in a diversity of ways across the students and the teachers seems to play a role in this difference.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Literature review
    • 2.1Turkish in Europe through interactional discourse lenses
    • 2.2Contemporary urban Turkey-Turkish in interactional discourse
  • 3.Methodology
    • 3.1Participants
    • 3.2Scalar analysis of interaction
    • 3.3Analysis and findings
      • 1.“komik”
      • 2.“arızalı”
  • 4.Discussion
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Transcription conventions
  • References
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